This invention concerns the crosslinking of isotactic polypropylene, which has
always been considered a non-crosslinkable polymer. Isotactic polypropylene crosslinking
not only generates new uses but also the prospects of both economic and environmentally
friendly mixing and recovery operations with other polymers. The crosslinking and
interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) (as is the case with polypropylene/polyethylene
mixture) provides both interesting properties and significant economic and environmentally
friendly interest. The principle of the crosslinking mechanism is to create macro
radicals and cause them to act immediately on sulphur before the reaction of peroxide
termination. The mixing process used is extrusion; however, all other processes
of transformation used for thermoplastics would be useful for subsequent industrial use.